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pyramid of flame. The company has so far been unable to utilize the flow from this well, and, therefore, as a matter of safety allow the millions of feet of escaping gas to burn from an iron pipe extending from the mouth of the well to the bank of the river. Thousands of visitors have been attracted to
Findlay during the past year to view her wonderful gas wells 'Five or six miles before reaching Findlay a brilliant light is seen in the heavens, and a mile or two further on discloses to the vision a great cloud of fire. This was the great Karg well.'
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894:(1879–1893)
888:(1874–1880)
862:(1870–1914)
838:(1865–1867)
826:(1864–1867)
820:(1861–1874)
814:(1861–1867)
808:(1861–1864)
802:(1861–1864)
784:(1859–1891)
772:(1858–1861)
760:(1851–1914)
754:(1851–1880)
736:(1848–1855)
713:(1830–1850)
691:(1802–1825)
683:Canal Mania
676:(1760–1840)
664:(1757–1769)
658:(1711–1720)
652:(1684–1720)
646:(1634–1637)
644:Tulip mania
637:(1000–1760)
193:Erie County
189:Utica Shale
98:Natural gas
80:Wood County
1342:Categories
365:2010-01-20
308:2010-01-20
258:References
171:, west to
92:Grand Lake
1358:Oil booms
1295:(2020–21)
832:(c. 1865)
721:1840–1870
195:south to
181:Ashtabula
153:tight oil
149:shale gas
118:in 1885.
68:Macksburg
211:See also
1289:(2011–)
1283:(2010–)
1277:(2008–)
1271:(2008–)
1220:(2002–)
1154:(1982–)
185:wet gas
124:Findlay
1117:(1980)
930:(1886)
924:(1884)
850:(1869)
844:(1869)
796:(1861)
790:(1860)
778:(1859)
766:(1858)
742:(1851)
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387:6 July
533:(PDF)
478:7 May
449:7 May
328:(PDF)
284:(PDF)
480:2012
451:2012
408:ISBN
389:2020
179:and
177:Lake
159:and
151:and
116:Lima
51:The
82:in
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422:^
266:^
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